Receptacle or pocket and method of making same



V. H. JENNINGS.

RECEPTACLE 0R POCKET AND METHOD 0F MAKING SAME.

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APPLICATION FILED OCT. 15, 1917. May

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APPLICATION FILED OCT. I5. 1917.

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VICTOR I-I. JENNINGS, 0F WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY ASSIGN- MENTS, TO MILLS WOVEN CARTRIDGE BELT COMPANY, OF WORCESTER, MASSA- CI-IUSETTS, A CORPORATION 0F MASSACHUSETTS.

RECEPTACLE OR POCKET AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME.

Application led October 15, 1917.

To ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR H. JENNINGS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vorcester, in the county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Receptacles or Pockets and Methods of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. f

`The invention comprises improvements in receptacles or pockets of Woven material on the order of those which constitute elements of military equipment, or accessories. It comprises, also, improvements in the method of making such receptacles or pockets.

The invention is applicable in the manufacture of receptacles or pockets employed as containers for cartridges and other purely military material, first-aid supplies, and various other articles or materials, and which may be combined with, applied to, or hung from belts or other parts of a soldiers equipment, or hospital corps belts, or used separately or conjointly in other ways.

The invention relates particularly to receptacles or pockets having partitions by which the interior of a receptacle or pocket is divided into compartments, and to the manufacture of receptacles or pockets with partitions. It enables such receptacles or pockets to be manufactured by simpler procedure and loom mechanism in performing` the necessary weaving than heretofore in the case of partitioned pockets; also, to be manufactured more quickly; consequently at smaller cost than heretofore and with an increased rate of production. It provides, also, for production of single receptacles or pockets free from external ends, projections, or fins. It provides, further, for the production of flat or Satchel-bottomed square partitioned receptacles or pockets.

Briefly stated, the improvements in receptacles or pockets include a receptacle or pocket having one or more partition-webs, integral. at one end thereof with a wall of the receptacle or pocket and secured at the other end thereof by applied fastenings. The latter end preferably, though not necessarily in all cases, is covered by a lip which is integral with the .CQrreSponding wall of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 4, 1920.

serial No. 196,586.

the receptacle or pocket. When two partition-webs are provided they may be and preferably are spread away from each other by spaced-apart lines of fastenings at both ends of the receptacle or pocket. The upper edges of the partition-webs preferably are selvaged, and preferably the lower edges also. The flat or Satchel-bottom, and the squaring of the receptacle or pocket, preferably are produced by means of lines of applied fastenings crossing or subtending the lower corners of the woven pocket or receptacle. These various features may be combined in a receptacle or pocket, or one or more thereof may be utilized in some cases without the others. They preferably are embodied. in a receptacle or pocket having front and back walls, and bottom, woven integral with one another.

The improvements in the method of making receptacles or pockets comprise special procedure in weaving and subsequent thereto, as hereinafter described and claimed.

The accompanying drawings show illustrative embodiments of the improvements .in receptacles or pockets, and also show successive steps of the new method of manufacturing receptacles or pockets.

In the drawings,-

Figure l is an isometric oblique view of a partitioned square and fiat or satchelbottomed receptacle or pocket which is one of the said illustrative embodiments.

Figs. 2 and 3 are views in section in the planes indicated by lines 2, 2, and 3, 3, Fig. l.

Figs. 4L and 5 are sectional detail views showing` the opposite end-portions of the lower part of the receptacle or pocket of Figs. l, 2, and 3.

Fig. 6, Sheet 2, is an isometric oblique view of a short length of a pocket-web, as produced in a loom, portions being broken out on account of want of space.

Fig. 7 Sheet 2, is a detail view showing the manner in which the two plies or webs of the partition-sections are connected at intervals along their lower edges by portions of weft-thread extending from one to the oth er and vice versa.

Fig. 8, Sheet 3, is an isometric oblique view of a blank for a receptacle or pocket, produced by cutting up the wel? O Fig. .6 into lengths. f Y

Fig. 9, Sheet 2, is an oblique view showing the line of fastenings which crosses or subtends one of the lower corners of a receptacle'or pocket, with the latter fiattened down for the application of such line, as in the process of manufacture.

Fig. 10, Sheet 3, shows the blank of Fig. 8, after the body-portion has been squared by the formation oi' the corner-seams.

Fig. 11, Sheet 3, shows the two partition- Webs turned around alongside the side-walls of the squared body-portion.

Fig. 12, Sheet 3, shows the receptacle or blank after the free ends of the partitionwebs have been attached at the end of the body-portion opposite that end oi the latter from which such webs spring.

Figs. 13 and 14, Sheet 4, show receptacles orpockets having a single partition.

The flat or Satchel-bottomed square receptacle or' pocket of Figs. 1 to 5 embodies in one construction the varions improvements in receptacles or pockets which are comprised in the present invention. It is produced in. conformity with the' innirovements aforesaid in the method ol ms ring receptacles or pockets. It has opposite sidewalls 1, 1, end-walls 2, 2a, a ilat bottom 3, and two partitions 4, 4, (a pair) above said flat bottom,vextending fromonc end-wall to the other. The two partition-webs are integrally united at one end, at 2b, with the middle. ofthe width of the end-wall 2. They extend away from cach other in opposite directions at thev face of said end-wall, the properextent of separation of the two partitions being maintained by vertical lines oi'f fastenings, 5, 5, engaging with the partitionwebs and with the said end-wall, the said vertical lines being spaced apart transversely of the recepetacleror pocket at a dis-- tance corresponding to the said extent ot separation The free ends of the partitionwebs are in. contact with the opposite endwall, 2, and are covered' by covering lips 6, 6, which lattery are integral with sai-d end-wall 2 and extend outward in opposite directions from` a vertical line of union, 2c, therewith. At this end oi the receptacle. or pocket the required extent of separation ot the two partitions is maintained by verticaly lines of astenings 7, 7, engaging with the ccverii'iglips, partition-webs, and emi-wall, and spaced at the proper distance apart transverselyoi' thc-receptacle or pocket. Additional lilnes oit fastenings B, 8, are applied horizontally. at the upper 'and lower ends oit the lines 5,; 5, Aand 7, 7. rlhe lower ends ot he end-walls2, 2:, and the opposite ends oi" the bottom S'are fastened together at the re'- spective ends of the receptacle or pocket by straight cross-lines 10,y 10, of astenings deiningthe angles between the end-walls and thexbottom and `producing the square shape of the receptacle or pocket in` horizontal cross-section and the iiat or satchel bottom. The continuations of the end-walls and bottom beyond the lines 10, 10, of iastenings constitute triangular lugs or ears 9, 9, which are inturned and under the lower edges of 'the partitions 4,A 4. T he Various lines oi 'lastenings preferably are stitches, forming stitched seams.

The method oi making the receptacle or pocket of Figs. 1 to 5 is as follows:

A pocket-web on the order of that shown in Fig. 6, Sheet 2, is woven. Such web comprises alternate body-sections a and partition-sections Z). The-said igure, for want of space,.shows only one body-section and one partition-section, both partly broken away, and connected portions of the adjoining body-section and partition-section. This web is composed of two cloths, 1r, woven iace to face, which are separate from each other except at the transverse lines of union 2b, 2C, defining the closed ends of the bodysections, and also along one margin of the web, namely the lower margin in' Fig. G. The two cloths m, have distinct selvages along the other margin oi the web, namely the upper margin in Fig. 6, which is at the top in they completed receptacle or pocket. At the lower margin of the web in Fig. G, the two cloths are solidly united throughout the length of a body-section' ato close the bottom of the latter, and also for short distances beyond the lines 2b, C, of transverse union, by the weit-thread crossing from one cloth to the other, and Vice versa, after every pick that extends toward such margin in either cloth, as well-known to weavers. Along the partition-sections the weft-thread may be similarly crossed over from one cloth to the otherand vice versa, but preferably the crossing-over occurs after a greater number of picks in either cloth, as i'our for instance, as indicated at o, o, in Fig. 7. Thereby practically distinct selvages are vtermed at the lower margin of each partition-section, with such selvages connected together at intervals by the weit-thread passing over from one to the other thereof, and Vice Versa, as in said ligure. rEhe partition-sections are narrower than they bodysections, the warp-threads ce which are interwoven in the lower portions of' the bodysections but not in those oi' the partitionsections being floated from one body-section to the next, as in Fig. 6. rlhebody-sectioifis are made wider than the partition-seetions az, a'. EachI blank-comprisesa body-section.

a, with partition-webs 4, 4, projecting from one end thereof, and short lips 6, 6, projecting from the other end thereof. The iioated warps are trimmed off.

The squaring of the receptacle or pocket and its bottom is effected by flattening each lower corner of the body-portion thereof iu turn as in Fig. 9, Sheet 2, and applying a line of fastenings 1G so as to cross or subtend the flattened corner. The stage in the Vmanufacture reached thereby is illustrated in Fig. 10. By this squaring of the receptacle or pocket the end-portions of the two webs constituting the opposite sides of the body-portion are caused to stand at right-angles to the intermediate portions of such webs, thereby constituting the endwalls 2, 2a, and the lower part of the bodyportion also is flattened out transversely so as to produce the fiat or Satchel-bottom.

T he bottom margins of the partition-webs 4b, 4b, are separated from each other by cutting. When the said margins are united as in Fig. 7 in weaving the pocket-web, the cutting of the connecting portions o, '0, of weft-thread leaves the partition-webs furnished with practically perfect selvages, which are preferred rather than raw edges.

After the disconnection ofv the bottom margins of the partition-webs from each other, the partition-webs are bent in opposite directions as in Fig. 11, Sheet 23, around the body-portion, and their free ends are attached to the opposite end of the bodyportion, as in Fig. 12Sheet 3. For the attachment the narrow projecting portions 6, 6, are turned in opposite directions away from each other, producing thereby the lips of Fig. 12 and Figs. 1V to 5, and the said free ends of the partition-webs are inserted between suchv lips and the exterior of the said end of the body-portion, and the vertical lines of fastenings 7, '7, are engaged with the three thicknesses. The horizontal lines 8, 8, of'fastenings are then applied. At the other end of the body-portion the vertical lines 5, 5, of fastenings, and horizontal lines S, 8, are applied.

The receptacle or pocket having been.

brought to its condition in Fig. 12, is turned inside out as in Fig. 1. This operation places the partition-webs 4, 4, inside the pocket, where they constitute the partitions, and in addition places the lugs or ears 9, 9, inside the receptacle or pocket, under the lower edges of the pz-irtitions 4, 4.

ifa single partition is desired, the two partition-webs may be fastened together, with their proximate faces contacting, as at 4b, 4b, in Fig. 13, Sheet 4, in which case the free ends of the combined partition-webs may be inclosed between the two lips 6, 6, and secured lby fastenings 11, preferably stitches. Or' the partition-section ofthe blank for a receptacle or pocket may com` prise a single cloth, as 4, Fig. 14, Sheet 4, the free end of which-may be lapped with a single lip 6c projecting from the body-portion and be fastened to the said lip, as by a line of fastenings 12. The relative lengths of the elements 4c and G of the partition may Vary in practice.

Briefiy summarized, the most characteristic steps of the hereindescribed novel and improved method of making partitioned woven receptacles or pockets consist in weaving a pocket-web comprising opposed walls joined together in the weaving so as tov close the ends of the receptacle or pocket, weaving a continuation of the. pocket-web beyond one of the places where the walls are joined together, or a pair of such continuations face to face, then bending such continuation around outside the body-portion of the receptacle or pocket, or in the case of the pair of continuations bending the latter in opposite directions around such body-portion, attaching the free end or ends tothe opposite end of the body-portion, and turning the receptacle or pocket inside out and therebyplacing the partition or partitions inside the receptacle or pocket. In the case of the receptacles or pockets of Figs. 1 to 5, 13 and 14, thesesteps are accompanied by the operations by which the receptacle or pocket is made square and flat or Satchel-bottomed, but the said steps may be practised without the addition of such operations, as for the production of receptacles or pockets which are not square or flat-bottomed. When it is found necessary, the partition-web or webs may have a greater relative width than in the drawings, in order that the lower edge or edges thereof may be brought as close as desired to the bottom of the receptacle or pocket.

ln some cases, the lugs or ears 9, 9, may be cut away alongside the lines of fastenings 10, 10.

The bottoni of the receptacle or pocket may be reinforced in the weaving in any of the ways known in the art.

Receptacles or pockets made in accordance with the invention will be furnished in practice, as may berequired, with covers or flaps of approved character, not necessary to be shown herein. l f l If preferred, the two web-continuations.4, 4, constituting the partition-section may be woven with their lower edges entirely unconnected with each other, by well-known processes of weaving, thereby cbviating all necessity for cutting such edges apart, as well as furnishing them with finished selvages.'

Vhat is claimed as the invention is :n

1. A receptacle or pocket having front back and end walls, and bottom, woven 1ntegral with one another, and also having a partition which is interwoven at one end llO Y tegral with one another, and also having a pair of partitions which are interwoven at one end thereof with one wall, spread away from each other by spacedapart lines of applied fastenings engaging with the said wall, and secured at the other end thereof to the opposite wall by spaced-apart lines of applied fastenings.

et. A satchel-bottomed receptacle or pocket having front back and end walls, and bottom, woven integral with one another, and also having above its flat bottom a partition which is interwoven at one end thereof with one wall and secured at the other end thereof to the opposite wall by applied fastenings. Y

5. A Satchel-bottomed receptacle or pocket having front back and end walls, and'bot tom, woven integral with one another, and also having above its flat bottom a pair of partitions which are interwoven at one end thereof with one wall and secured at the other end thereof to the opposite wall by applied fastenings.

6. A Satchel-bottomed receptacle or pocket having front back and'end walls, and bottom, woven integral with one another, and also having' above its flat bottom a pair of partitions which are interwoven at'one end thereof with one wall, spread away from each other by spaced-apart lines of applied fastenings engaging with the said wall, and

secured at the other end thereof to the op- Y posite wall by spaced-apart lines of applied fastenings. j

7. A receptacle or pocket of woven material having a partition-web which is integral at one end thereof with a wall ofthe receptacle or pocket and secured at the other end thereof by applied fastenings beneath a covering lip which is integral with a wall.

8. A receptacle or pocket of woven material having a pair of partition-webs which are integral at one end thereof with a wall of the receptacle or .pocket and secured at their other ends by applied fastenings beneath covering` lips which are integral with a wall.

9. A receptacle or pocket of woven material having a pair of partition-webs which are integral at one end thereof with a wall of the receptacle or pocket, spread apart from each other by spaced-apart linesnof applied fastenings engaging with `the said wall, and secured at the other end thereof by spaced-apart applied fastenings beneath,

covering lips which are integral with a wall.

10. A woven receptacle or pocket closed at its ends by the weaving together of opposite walls thereof, and having a transverse partition formed of a woven continuation of the pocket-web beyond the place. at which the said walls are woven together.

l1. A woven receptacle or pocket closed at its ends by the weaving together of opposite walls thereof, and having a plurality of partitions formed of woven continuations of the pocket-web beyond the place at which the said walls are woven together.

l2. The method of making a partitioned woven receptacle or pocket consisting in weaving a pocket-web comprising opposed walls joined together in the weaving to close the ends of the body-portion of the receptacle or pocket, weaving a continuation of the pocket-web beyond one of the places where the walls are joined together, 'then bending such continuation around outside the body-portion of the receptacle or pocket and attaching it to the opposite end of the said bodyportion, and turning the receptacle or pocket inside out and thereby placing the partition within the receptacle or pocket.

13. The method of making a partitioned woven receptacle `or Vpocket consisting in weaving a pocket-web comprising opposed walls joined in the weaving to close the ends of the body-portion of the'receptacle or pocket, weaving a pair of continuations of the pocket-web face to facebeyondone of the places where the walls are joined to# gether, then bending such continuations in opposite directions around the body-portion -of the receptacle or Vpocket andV attaching their free ends to the opposite end of the said body-portion, and turning the receptacle or pocket inside out so as to place the partitions within the receptacle or pocket.

14. The method ofl making a partitioned Satchel-bottomed woven receptacle or pocket which consists in weaving a pocket-web comprising opposed walls joined together in the weavingto close the ends and bottom of the body-portion. of receptacle or pocket, weaving a narrower continuation of the pocketweb beyond one of the closed ends to constitute a partition-piece, bending such continuation or partition-piece around outside one wall of the body-portion of the receptacle or pocket and attaching it to the Vopposite end of the said body-portion, squaring the bottom by lines of applied fastenings subtending the lower corners of the pocket'.- web below the partition-piece, and turning the receptacle or pocket inside out and therebyplacing the partition withinthe re- Y ceptacle or pocket. V A

15. The method of making a partitioned Satchel-bottomed woven receptacle or pocket which consists in weaving a pocket-Web comprising opposed walls joined together in the weaving to close the ends and bottom of the body-portion of the receptacle or pocket, weaving a pair of narrower continuations of the pocket-web beyond one of the closed ends to constitute partition-pieces, bending such continuations or partition-pieces in opposite directions around outside the bodyportion of the receptacle or pocket and attaehing them to the opposite end of the said body-portion, squaring the bottom by lines of applied fastenings subtending the lower corners of the pocket-web below the partition-pieces, and then turning the receptacle or or pocket inside out and thereby placing the partition within the receptacle or pocket.

16. A receptacle or pocket of woven material having seamless encbwalls and also having a partition-Web which is integral at one end thereof with one of said end-walls and secured to the other end-Wall by applied fastenings.

17. A receptacle or pocket of woven material having seamless end-walls and a pair of partition-webs with a receiving comlpartment between them, said partition-webs integral at one end thereof with one of Said end-walls, and secured. to the other end-Wall by4 applied fastenings.

In testimony whereof I afX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

VICTOR H. JENNINGS.

Witnesses:

GEORGE VVANTON SPALDING, GEORGE T. HOWARD. 

